Mentor Maestro: Bringing Pleasure and Pride to your Parenting

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Do you want more confidence and encouragement in your parenting? Would you like some extra skills and strategies for dealing with difficult behaviour?

For ways to reduce stress at home and increase family achievements, read on for details of our parent education and training programmes and individual parent coaching.

"Parenting Your Way"

Are you tired of struggling to get things done in your family when you need to and how you want to?

Do you want to get more done while nurturing your family relationships and enjoying your family time even more?

We offer programmes and seminars for:

• Parents – both new and experienced
• Single, Separated or Divorced Parents – how to make parenting work for all parties
• Integrating parents – how to integrate two families into one
• Teenagers and their parents – how to enable both parties to hear the other!
• The whole family – helping them all to achieve what they want.

This unique programme is specifically tailored to helping you connect your approach to parenting with your goals and dreams for your family.

How you  go about achieving your goals will influence your relationships with your children AND your partner.

Imagine the peace and calm in your home as you achieve what needs to be done, with all family members being listened to and considered. Everyone is happy – including you!

Learn these essential parenting concepts, so you and your partner achieve your family aspirations and goals together, more often, more successfully, with less stress.

Your unique personal programme is based on how you prefer to achieve your gaols. It will help to take the guess work out of your family relationships enabling you both to understand:

• What makes you (both) tick,
• Where others in your family are coming from,
• Why you do the things you do and don’t do other things!
• How you can connect and act so that everyone feels involved, valued and satisfied.

Each parent, parenting partner and teenager can have their own document detailing their preferred ways of getting things done. Included is advice on how to use a simple process to reach their desired outcomes while making sure that everyone in the family is heard. This is supported in a series of workshops or individual parent/carer coaching.

Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.)

Parents say that they want more time for pleasurable activities with their families, and what can make that happen is for parents to learn how to base their relationships on trust, acceptance and understanding, so they waste less time on problem-solving and conflict-resolution.

PET is designed to help parents, grandparents and other carers develop and nurture great relationships with children of all ages.

In this parenting course, I guide parents to:

• Appreciate the importance of their role
• Honour childhood as a very special stage of life
• Develop realistic expectations
• Communicate openly about feelings, needs, and values
• Maintain an attitude which fosters the child’s self esteem, self-management and natural curiosity
• Find the meaning behind some typical behaviours of children
• Solve problems using a method that ensures everyone’s needs are met
• Resolve and prevent conflict through strategies which show respect, trust and understanding

Courses planned for 2012:

Term 1 :  course starts Tuesday February 7, 7 - 10pm. (8 sessions)

Term 2 :  course starts Saturday or Sunday, April 21/22, 9.30am – 4.30pm. (4 sessions)

Term 3 :  course starts Wednesday, July 25, 7pm. (8 sessions)

Term 4 :  course starts Saturday or Sunday, October 20/21, 9.30am. (4 sessions)

Individual coaching for Parents and Carers

Are you uncomfortable talking about your family in a group setting?

Are you unable to commit to attending a parenting course each week?

We offer parent coaching on an individual basis, in person , on Skype or over the 'phone. So no matter where you live, help is just a phone-call away.

This is an opportunity for you to have the help and advice you need to create the family you want, without joining in a group programme. You can learn skills for developing more satisfying relationships with your children, a process for getting more things done at home with less stress, and strategies to maximise family harmony.

Come to us or we can come to you. Home consultations and phone coaching are offerred to suit busy parents and families outside Melbourne.

A programme will be designed to guide you to the outcome you desire.                                                                             

Simply contact Janet Powell - The Parenting Coach - at janet@mentormaestro.com    or call (03) 9889 3991.

Effective Grandparenting

Grandparents can enjoy rewarding, stress-free experiences with their family by developing relationships based on deep understanding, acceptance and respect, through enriched communication.

The PET course will enable grandparents to:

• Value their contribution to their family
• Clarify their expectations of the relationships
• Understand the values and needs of their adult children and grandchildren
• Talk freely about feelings to deepen the relationships
• Work out what is causing some challenging behaviours
• Solve any problems in a peaceful, democratic way

Would you like articles on parenting issues without having to write them yourself?

Articles can be supplied on a range of topics for your website, blog, e-newsletter, e-zine, magazine, newsletter, booklet or handout for parents, grandparents or carers. Give us the topic or we can choose that too.

Do you need a speaker for your parents' or grandparents' group?

A speaker is available for kindergartens, play-groups, community houses, child-care centres, schools, clubs, parent groups, and grandparent groups.
The title and issues covered can be tailored to the group and presented in an informative, entertaining manner.

These include:

Make Parenting easier and more fun - it's Child's Play

Creating Co-operative Children

Creating Confident, Resilient Children

Discipline - Looking for Effective Solutions

“Tweens”- Who are they and what do they need?

Toys - Less is More 

Planning for your family's Goals 

Kindergarten - What's it all about?  

How to avoid the emotional roller-coaster of the First Day of School 

What type of Parenting produces the most capable children? 

To inquire on behalf of your group, contact Janet Powell, The Parenting Coach, on 03-9889-3991 or janet@mentormaestro.com

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